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A skyfull of stars in Greece
21.09.2002
– The greatest chess event of the year in Greece, the European Club Cup, begins
tomorrow in the Athos Hotel of Kallithea, Halkidiki. It will feature over 300
players including Adams, Shirov, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Grischuk, Khalifman, Korchnoi,
Radjabov and many more. The games start at 2 p.m. Greek time, play is from Sept.
22–28. Live games, reports, pictures and interviews will be posted on the
official site.
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Searching for Vladimir Kramnik
21.09.2002
– We were put into a car, with wads of cotton wool taped over our eyes. We were driven for hours through the forest countryside of an unnamed country and arrived at an undisclosed place. But in the end we got to see the reclusive world champion. He was not in a cave but in a nice hotel, posing for photographers, would you believe. Here's the
full story.
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Looking for a place to play?
20.09.2002
– It is with great pleasure that we present our new Tournament Chess Calendar,
created and maintained by Harmen Jonkman. Here you will find tournaments and
links from all over Europe. The Chess Calendar will be constantly updated and
gets its own link on the left of our main page. You will find Harmen's amazing calendar here.
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Man vs Machine Part III
19.09.2002
– In October Kramnik
plays Deep Fritz, in December it's Kasparov
vs Deep Junior. Now the Maastricht Foundation has announced a mini-match
over four games between GM Evgeny Bareev, number 7 in the world rankings, and
the program Hiarcs 8, written by Mark Uniacke of England. It will take place
in the Centre Céramique from 28-31 January 2003. Details are here.
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Kasparov vs Deep Junior postponed
17.09.2002
– We have just learned that the Kasparov-Deep
Junior match has been postponed. It was scheduled to begin in Jerusalem
on October 1, one day before the start of the Kramnik-Deep Fritz match in Bahrain.
The new starting date is December 1 and the match is still set for six games
and to take place in Jerusalem.
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Potassium Deficiency in Moscow
17.09.2002
– The mighty Russian teddy-bear goes down in defeat as a critical potassium deficiency
strikes the home team. Can preparing for computers ruin your game against humans?
The human-machine predictions are in, but Fritz and Junior protest that no computers
were allowed to vote in the poll. Plus, the book computer-chess fans have been
waiting for. It's all in Mig
on Chess #179.
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Germany strikes back in the clouds
17.09.2002
– After the first
leg of the match ended with a depressing 3.5:0.5 loss for the German players,
they were able to strike back on home territory, winning with a 2.5:1.5 margin.
Playing 120 meters above the famous Alexanderplatz Christopher Lutz won
his first game against Viktor Kortschnoj. All other games were drawn. Here's an
illustrated report.
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The man who brought us Bobby Fischer
17.09.2002
– A chess match as must-see TV? Sounds preposterous, but 30 years ago a
sociology professor and chess master who had never appeared on or even watched
TV replayed the moves of Fischer-Spassky on an oversized demo board in an Albany,
N.Y., studio. The host, Shelby Lyman, became an instant sensation – the
Julia Child of chess. An American newspaper looks
back in awe.
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To Err is Human
13.09.2002
– The eleventh game of his 1985 match against Kasparov Karpov made an incredible
blunder and had to resign. Both players disagree on its evaluation: was it "the
blunder of the century", as some commentators thought? In his latest
column Lev Khariton looks at other blunders in chess history and comes
to the conclusion that Karpov wants his mistakes to be exceptional, while Kasparov
does not want to give him even this luxury.
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India proud of youngest female grandmaster
13.09.2002
– Chess prodigy Koneru Humpy has become the first woman chess player from India to receive the Men's Grandmaster title. There is some debate about whether she is the youngest ever woman in the world achieve this – at 15 years, one month and 27 days (three months less than Judit Polgar's previous record). The Indian press are ecstatic. You will find links to the articles
here.
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Anna's impressions of Moscow
12.09.2002
– She is there in the Russian capital, covering the chess tournament. Our roving correspondent Anna Dergatscheva has sent us another batch of pictures that give you a nice impression of the match Russia vs the Rest of the World. They include Alexander Motylev with chess groupies, Alexandra Kosteniuk with a pushy admirer and an exclusive first-time shot of Kramnik with his wife (left).
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Russia loses 48:52 – that is news!
11.09.2002
– Amazing, isn't it? The regular media will ignore big chess events, but if Russia,
and especially Garry Kasparov, loses, then it is all over the news. "Russia
falls behind in chess", reported ABC, and "Shock defeat for chess
tsars" the Sydney Morning Herald. And just listen to this phone-in
discussion in 720 ABC Perth. Results, games and statistics are on our special
Moscow report page.
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